AT&T announced today the availability of free WiFi access for its iPhone customers at thousands of hotspots nationwide. The company sent text messages to iPhone users and put up an informational web page noting the new service, but some greeted the news with skepticism based on aborted rollouts of the service in May and in July.
Among the hotspots slated to offer the service are airports, hotels and other public locations where one often must pay a fee to access WiFi networks. AT&T even offers a handy Starbucks location finder on its web page. After reading about this I was in the mood for an afternoon coffee, so I went to one of the several Starbucks in my neighborhood and, lo and behold, it worked.
Now, if it works the next time I’m in an airport, I’ll be really stoked.
Lonnie Lazar is a writer-musician-web designer-attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie’s photos on Flickr.
